Everyone needs to recognizeyour government health care worker on sight; Obama decreed by fiat they will have a special insignia to make them stand out. Look for it every time you go for care or to pay your taxes.
The Federal Bureau of Insurance Compliance Offices has this Logo on [...]There's serious resistance from doctors, the American Cancer Association, etc... who recommend more frequent mammograms and at an earlier age.
Possibly, some insurance companies will adjust their reimbursement policies and [...]
From Ace's excellent (and serious) essay Pelosi: It's Very Fair That We Jail You If You Don't Buy Health Insurance:
I'm paranoid? Really? I am not fretting here about some remote and
unlikely possibility. We are not speaking here of "slippery slopes" or
in [...]
Republican are hypocrites.It's awfully hard to track down straight numbers about private insurance coverage of abortion. A 2001 Guttmacher study presents the following:
The average cost of an abortion was under $400, and 74% of abortions are paid for by the patient. Thirteen percent more by Medicaid.
These numbers aren't nearly as bad [...]
They might use the Commerce Clause (nowadays it seems to cover almost anything the government wants to do), but I think the idea of forcing everybody to buy something is not a government power.
The topic is discussed here: Sen. Reed:
Forcing People to Buy [...]
Republicans opposed to the bill on the House Ways and Mean Committee said they received confirmation from the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation Friday that the Pelosi/House Democratic bill would penalize Americans [...]
Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY) can be counted on as a "yes" in this weekend's expected vote on the House Democrats' health care bill, announcing his support in a press release.
"This legislation will reform the insurance industry and provide increased access to affordable healthcare'" [...]
Re Bruce's post below, I'd like to point out that the government-designed medical insurance is not really insurance at all. It's just payment for medical services, at government-determined rates.
In fact, it's insurance only in the same sense that Social Security is insurance - you are forced to pay into it,' [...]
Why the heck should anyone care about how health insurance agents will fare under ObamaCare?
Under the House bill, for example, the Small Business Administration will help businesses and individuals figure out how to obtain affordable coverage. (The bill provision is titled, “Assistance for Small Employers.”) Health insurance agents [...]
John at Powerline asks why they need the public option:
Under the House bill, it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that health insurance companies are no longer in the insurance business. They can't rate and underwrite risks, which is the essence of insurance. That's illegal. They' [...]
From the small business health insurance premium hikes thread, here's rst1231:
What about Individual?
I have BCBS through Commonwealth Choice and just found out my insurance is going up $110 more per month - for the basic plan, no bells and whistles and it looks like no interest [...]
Outlawing manhood. Human Events
Hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? Global warming.
DOJ: Blacks will only vote for party labels. Unbelievably insulting.
The No Insurance Club. One annual fee to your doc. Basically, the doc takes the risk of his time.
Is it [...]
Well, this might be helpful ...
Governor Deval Patrick is expected to announce a plan today that would give state insurance regulators the authority to review health insurance premiums that are charged to small businesses, an approach meant to stem the growing health care costs.
... The state also proposes to [...]
